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          <title>Fire can&#8217;t destroy love</title>
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                    I understand why people&#8217;s picture of hell is fire.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lang Lang is welcome to tickle my ivories</title>
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                    When I read that Lang Lang would auction off his red Steinway grand piano to raise money for an earthquake relief fund, my first thought was this: How the heck did a panda learn to play piano? 
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Three up; Three down</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Proceeding with caution</title>
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                    I have a new addition at my house.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hot air fuels energy plan</title>
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                    Mark Warner is either disturbingly facile, an easy mark for a group that can&#8217;t hit one, or he thinks you are.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Economic woes grow with Fed</title>
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                    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a startling observation Wednesday, startling because he seemed so freshly aware of something acutely known by those of us among the rabble who, paraphrasing George Bailey, do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this country. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:21:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Valley Aging provides badly needed service</title>
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                    Sometime after 2003, I had to give up driving because of age and health problems.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Tip of hat to another local country star</title>
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                    I appreciate your article on the Statler Brothers&#8217; induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame (&#8220;Statlers bring further distinction to Staunton,&#8221; June 29). I have been a fan of theirs since their beginning.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Campaigning, not serving, Saxman&#8217;s focus</title>
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                    The citizens of the 20th District have a delegate who did not spend all of his time at the General Assembly working for us. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Politicians slip oil crisis blame</title>
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                    Like Shakespeare&#8217;s Leontes, Americans amid crisis are inclined to believe &#8220;all&#8217;s true that is mistrusted,&#8221; and so to the fore stride politicians with false villains in tow, this time, oil speculators. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Another law to sap liberty</title>
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                    In a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a man of science seeks to enhance his wife&#8217;s beauty by removing from her cheek a singular imperfection, an offending birthmark.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:57:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Two reminders to live life to the fullest</title>
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                    None of us knows when our time is up, but the passing of two people in the past week offered me a chance to reflect.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:34:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Wayne not city&#8217;s burden to carry</title>
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                    Bill Hausrath gazes upon a vacant structure on West Main Street and sees the Waynesboro of his youth and the one of succeeding generations, a hub of life in a place where most of life&#8217;s energy has migrated slightly west. 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Three Up; Three Down</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bottle rocket fuels happiness</title>
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                    The key to my happiness was missing.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Helms&#8217; power to divide endures</title>
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                    I wish I had been in Idaho when Jesse Helms died. 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Let&#8217;s see real action</title>
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                    Councilman Frank Lucente&#8217;s reaction to word that an Outback Steakhouse will join the retail ranks in the bustling West End intrigued us
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Feds&#8217; hands dip too far already</title>
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                    Its touch perceptible on all points of Americans&#8217; person, the federal government seeks to extend its reach in literal fashion.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Road bills drive political wedge</title>
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                    Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, fancied by some as a running mate to Barack Obama, has met a qualification expressed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson via the hot mic.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Talking to Iran: aggressive folly</title>
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                    In the lingering glow of test missile launches in Iran, presumptuous Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama proposes anew a change in American foreign policy which can hardly be believed. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Why won&#8217;t Hanger give it up already?</title>
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                    I am writing to say enough is enough. Three weeks after Kurt Michael stepped down as chairman of the Augusta County Republican Committee, I read that state Sen. Emmett Hanger is out attacking him and the committee again (&#8220;Hanger chastised by GOP &#8216;club,&#8217; &#8221; June 27). 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Allen, council allies shove feet in mouths</title>
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                    I find Councilman Bruce Allen&#8217;s comment to The News Virginian (&#8220;Allen joins City Council for first time today, though presence already felt,&#8221; June 30) regarding the firing of City Manager Doug Walker interesting: &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t think he was taking the city in the direction it needed to go.&#8221;  

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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Council should focus on issues</title>
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                    Mayor Tim Williams announced that he had selected Councilwoman Lorie Smith to serve on the finance panel along with him and Vice Mayor Frank Lucente. Smith&#8217;s addition to the committee would complete a rudimentary mathematical sum, bringing to three the number of council members on the committee and thereby the committee itself into compliance with city code.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Gilmore record difficult to spin</title>
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                    An ostensible mark of conservatism is resistance to change, and so the Shenandoah Valley resists, preserving perfectly its distinct political hue.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:26:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Three up; Three down</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bulletin board would boost downtown business</title>
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                    After reading about the downtown being in need of something to bring more traffic to it, a thought came to mind.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:11:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>5 changes to improve government</title>
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                    Everyone seems to want change in our government, except our government itself! 
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          <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Not the people&#8217;s war</title>
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                    Reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan are frustrated that the television networks and even print media are cutting back on their coverage of events.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Patriotism&#8217;s true spirit still glows</title>
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                    Hubris nibbles at rituals and fervor, and misnomers arise in their place, producing a distortion.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>A different prospective</title>
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                    I&#8217;ll be up front &#8211; I don&#8217;t like or agree with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Washington, D.C., handgun restriction law. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Reality may bite effort at restraint</title>
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                    Political ceremonies are choreographed events, meaning that attempting to cull substance from them can be like trying to pull pulp from a hollow oak. 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Feel the power of felt</title>
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                    Kermit Love, a costume designer who helped create Sesame Street&#8217;s iconic Big Bird character, has died at the age of 91.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Three up, Three down</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>HUNT: Beginnings and endings</title>
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                    I write this on the eve of a wedding. Our family is expanding to include a new bride. We will gain a member, and by extension, we will gain her family as well. 
I write this as another member of the family is dying.
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          <title>Kim still poses nuclear threat</title>
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                    Inclinations to invite Kim Jong Il for Fourth of July hot dogs and hamburgers should be considered with skepticism.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Crescent quandary understandable</title>
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                    In an historic fit of cogency, government in 1951 produced a sound tonic for a spreading urban malady.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Questions for Landes, Fort Defiance</title>
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                    Recent statements made by an Augusta County high school principal and a county resident have a number of us scratching our heads. 
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                    In the practice of ancient Rome, a triumphant general, apt to forget his mortality amid adulation, heard a reminder in cant, uttered by a slave standing over his shoulder: &#8220;Look behind. Remember that you are a man.&#8221; 
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          <title>Politics, beliefs inseparable mix</title>
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                    At the height of fervor over an acronym, WWJD, evangelical leftist Tony Campolo asked a pointed question: &#8220;Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?&#8221; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Reasons why Walker was not rehired</title>
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                    For those who ask why City Manager Doug Walker was not re-hired, consider the following.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Cries of &#8216;crisis&#8217; unconvincing</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/cries_of_crisis_unconvincing/23911/</link>
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                    Children of wise parents soon learn the limited efficacy of stamping feet, wailing in store aisles or turning their faces from ruddy to ashen by holding their breath in an attempt to persuade.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                    Three up, three down
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          <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ruling grants aid to enemies</title>
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                    A country whose people increasingly dwell in virtual realities is perhaps bound to wonder with Pilate, &#8220;What is truth?&#8221; or to dismiss as anachronistic the question&#8217;s object. This might explain the celebration in some corners over the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to ignore the realities of war.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>At long last, a call to drill</title>
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                    A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:18:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Waynesboro needs new system</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/waynesboro_needs_new_system/23679/</link>
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                    Thirty-nine years ago I completed Warren Coleman&#8217;s senior course in government and graduated from Waynesboro High School. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Housing bailout bears foul aroma</title>
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                    Barack Obama identifies Countrywide Financial as a contagion, which might explain the onset of unsettled stomach in the Illinois senator and economic diagnostician. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Thanks for making derby a success</title>
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                    Soap Box Derby thank you.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Waynesboro takes toll on average family</title>
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                    If you think that you would like to spend family time this summer at Waynesboro&#8217;s War Memorial Pool, think again! The cost for a family season pass is $120 up front! Period. One-hundred-twenty dollars!
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Warriors pay victory&#8217;s price</title>
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                    Quietly, America is inching toward success in Iraq. The number of average monthly U.S. deaths has plummeted, sectarian violence has decreased and the Iraqi government appears steadily more capable of independence. The presidential campaign and economic downturn have eclipsed this. So too has a Pyrrhic truth: One more such victory would utterly undo us.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ireland&#8217;s fight a familiar one</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/irelands_fight_a_familiar_one/23572/</link>
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                    On the unlucky day of Tim Russert&#8217;s passing, the words of fellow Irishman and former mentor Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan stirred in the memory: &#8220;To be Irish is to know that, in the end, the world will break your heart.&#8221; 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Shouldn&#8217;t have waived nail&#45;gun coverage</title>
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                    Chances are, I will be shot in the head with a nail gun. 
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          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama&#8217;s friends also his enemies</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/obamas_friends_also_his_enemies/23508/</link>
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                    Politics is a game played with associations and agendas, the latter driving the former.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                    On a corner down the street from my house is an old house that has been cut up into apartments. They can&#8217;t be very large because, judging from the number of mail boxes on the front of the building, there are a lot of them. In back of the building and completely exposed to the street is a small patio. Every summer it is turned into a resort. It happened again this year.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Russert true giant in TV journalism</title>
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                    In the various circles where the old guard known as print media gather, it is popular to think of television journalism as oxymoronic. Televison provides sound bites, newspapers and other print media provide depth. Or so the thinking goes. Whether it&#8217;s the stuff of mere rivalry or something fouler to the smell, that thinking never applied to Tim Russert.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:18:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lack of coverage on history in the making</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    OK, I&#8217;ll admit that the Shenandoah Valley, especially the lower part, is overwhelmingly conservative and politically Republican. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Choice of Hillary would be clunker</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    Vanquished but never silent, Hillary Clinton distorts a punch line, amid sulking, pleading to Barack Obama: &#8220;Take me as VP, please.&#8221; 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Donors should get first pick for organs</title>
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                    The generosity of live organ donors like Ann Hanna is wonderful (&#8220;Giving friendship new life: New Hope woman donating her kidney to a friend in need,&#8221; June 5). 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Kate Collins staff deserves applause</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/kate_collins_staff_deserves_applause1/23312/</link>
          <description><![CDATA[
                    Kate Collins Middle School secretaries, teachers and administrators recently had to manage an unforeseen tragedy in the loss of a beloved teacher and friend, Glenn Anderson (&#8220;Augusta soccer loses two coaches,&#8221; May 20).
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    Thank heaven for Democrats. They promised change in gas prices when they took back Congress in 2006, and, by Jove, it happened.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Donors should get first pick for organs</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    The generosity of live organ donors like Ann Hanna is wonderful (&#8220;Giving friendship new life: New Hope woman donating her kidney to a friend in need,&#8221; June 5).
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Kate Collins staff deserves applause</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    Kate Collins Middle School secretaries, teachers and administrators recently had to manage an unforeseen tragedy in the loss of a beloved teacher and friend, Glenn Anderson (&#8220;Augusta soccer loses two coaches,&#8221; May 20).
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Dems produce oil for economic skid</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    Thank heaven for Democrats. They promised change in gas prices when they took back Congress in 2006, and, by Jove, it happened. The change has been different than the one for which America hoped. 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/goodlattes_fairtax_doesnt_add_up/23249/</link>
          <description><![CDATA[
                    Every few years, U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, comes out with a &#8220;bright&#8221; idea. 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                    Although, as a Staunton resident, I have no dog in the current Waynesboro city officials&#8217; dog fight, I do, however, have an interest in assuring that the press and public have an accurate accounting of Doug Walker&#8217;s purchase of a Lofton Lake share (&#8220;Retreat connects Walker, Hausrath,&#8221; June 5). 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Care needed in manager search</title>
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                    Quiet in the City Hall cacophony makes more shrill the discordant sounds over the looming departure of the city manager.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama&#45;Clinton not a dream ticket</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/columnists/article/obama_clinton_not_a_dream_ticket/23193/</link>
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                    Nobody listens to Jimmy Carter anymore, but once in a while, they should.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Just say no to mooning</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/columnists/article/just_say_no_to_mooning/23172/</link>
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                    The following is a public service announcement. 
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Farm Bill apologia</title>
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                    As a piece of fiction, The News Virginian&#8217;s May 20 editorial, &#8220;Goodlatte, peers rain farm folly,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t rise to the high standards of the &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; on which it relies for its template.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Crime and punishment</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Dostoevsky&#8217;s masterpiece, fancies that he can achieve intellectual superiority by ignoring his own act of gratuitous violence.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Republicans, take notice</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/republicans_take_notice/23143/</link>
          <description><![CDATA[
                    Having slipped beyond the walls of the establishment, Bob Barr resides now in its shadows, in a place known as the fringe, whose primary inhabitants are few and familiar, among them Ralph Nader and, long ago, Lyndon LaRouche.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Article, editorial were unfounded</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/article_editorial_were_unfounded/23142/</link>
          <description><![CDATA[
                    Your innuendo inferring a conflict of interest because the Walker and Hausrath families both have an ownership interest in Lofton Lake boggles the imagination (&#8220;Retreat connects Walker, Hausrath,&#8221; June 5). 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Leaving something for future generations</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/columnists/article/leaving_something_for_future_generations/23141/</link>
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                    Some days I think I am living entirely off the contributions of previous generations. 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Good luck to WHS baseball</title>
          <link>http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/good_luck_to_whs_baseball/23082/</link>
          <description><![CDATA[
                    A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Taxpayers deserve better treatment</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
                    As a member of the silent majority, who follows the local news and rolls her eyes at the arguments of the City Council and its inability to help this city solve serious matters, I must stand up and say, &#8220;Whoa!&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:12:01 EDT</pubDate>
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                    At first I blamed the tall weeds and grass along Virginia&#8217;s highways and roads on the continuous rain and cool temperatures this spring.
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                    Amid the tempest over Doug Walker&#8217;s looming departure from City Hall emerge bedfellows and politics strangely familiar and curiosity freshly stirred.
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                    John McCain finally faces the challenge that loomed during six months of opposition party primaries: How to best a foe whose rhetorical 
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                    As a resident of Waynesboro for the last 6 years, I have been an enthusiastic observer of the Waynesboro City Council meetings on TV.
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                    Glenn Anderson was my sixth-grade math teacher.
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                    A plaintive, heart-wrenching song from the Civil War sings: &#8220;There is an empty chair at the table.&#8221;
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                    Confronting a perceived apocalypse, ecological messiahs John Warner and Joe Lieberman might achieve a crisis.
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                    It is as bad as this for Barack Obama: hopes of injecting a flagging campaign with new energy and muscle have shifted to his selection of a running mate.
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                    Warren Buffett has been the most successful investor in recent history.
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                    Lurking in the shadows of inconvenient truths is the familiar form of an erstwhile president whose heart seems to warm to the precise extent that his wife&#8217;s anticipation of oval glory cools. 
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          <title>When will it end?</title>
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                    When will the bloodletting stop? When will the vicious, venomous behaviors of City Council members (old and new) run its course? When will the new majority and new minority call a truce and let the pain subside?
I do not believe the Waynesboro citizenry can expect a change for the better any time soon. In fact, future events may get worse.
Why?
The hurt, pain, anger and frustration suffered by the old minority has lasted too long for a reconciliation of the parties in the near future. The arrogance of the old majority is too raw and recent.
The citizens of Waynesboro have witnessed two good men, Bob Lunger and Doug Walker, sacrificed because they got caught in the crossfire of the two warring factions.
How many more good civil servants must be sacrificed on the altar of venomous, petty behaviors?
Neither side has displayed the Christian values for which this community is famous. Neither side has shown the necessary humanity needed to rise above the anger and hurt so that the citizens of Waynesboro can face the challenges of the future united.
As one senior citizen said to me, &#8220;They treated Doug Walker like the Romans treated Jesus. Nobody should be treated like that on television, nobody.&#8221;
Signed, That Damn Yankee.
David O&#8217;Brien
Waynesboro

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                    The best show in town this week is Channel 14 from about 9:10 to 9:35 p.m.
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                    A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:
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                    The flickering light of comity on the Waynesboro City Council has been snuffed by a familiar gust of dysfunction, which is neither remarkable nor pernicious except for one whose title has become suddenly transitory. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                    In the wee-hour darkness, the stocky young colonel stood on an earthen mound gazing into the faces of the 750 warriors before him.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I am not a religious man and I don&#8217;t know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us.
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                    His legacy nibbled to bits by the perpetual occupation of Iraq, President Bush advances toward the respite of political oblivion with the ghosts of obscure but fateful failures on his trail. 
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                    A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:
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                    I&#8217;m not a travel, engineering or financial expert but I do quite a bit of thinking and, I hope, reasoning. 
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                    Letter to the editor: On May 10, I was shopping at the Waynesboro Garden Center. 
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                    Letter to the editor: Having reached the end of a long campaign, I wanted to take a moment to give thanks to a number of people.
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                    Payoffs for taxpayers are rare. Waynesboro&#8217;s get one starting tonight, and there is sufficient cause for hope that it will be the first of many.
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                    Amid persistent drought in the Shenandoah Valley last week, Washington received a torrential soaking. Faux tears fell from the eyes of politicians moved to the point of appeasement over the conceptual plight of that maudlin anachronism popularly known as the family farm.
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                    At the epicenter of Fishersville, we find ourselves at a crossroads.
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                    Drilling into the sophistic strata that pass for rationale in the dimly lit celestial space occupied by environmentalists, one discovers veins pulsing with myth, contradiction and, of course, mercury. 
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                    On our 20th anniversary, my lovely, red-headed wife and I sat down and took an honest assessment of our relationship, how far we had come in our two decades together and what the future holds for a couple of crazy kids that everyone said would never make it. 
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                    Having correctly decided against increasing taxes, the Waynesboro City Council now must play the part of budgetary mercenary, wading through the numeric jungle in search of $600,000 wanted for dead, at least until next year.
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